Anyone else had the flu this year?

Just got back from the doc & lucky me, that 10 minute or whatever test was showing positive for flu in less than 5!

Started getting sick Monday night so I'm past the optimal window for Tamiflu but doc said the CDC just in the past few days recommended it out to 5 days to hopefully stave off some of the complications they're seeing this year. So $110 dollars and some odd cents later, I'm drugged up & heading for the couch...

This is nasty stuff folks. Tuesday was rough. Wednesday was he** and today isn't any better.

I started feeling bad & getting a lot of congestion the day before Christmas Eve.... thinking I was taking a terrible head cold.

I made it through all our Christmas Eve & Christmas Day family obligations & dinners.....but I was just plum wore out. Then that night I started running fever , chills & body aches. Next morning my wife said you might want to see a doctor as she didn't think this was just a cold. So...that Tuesday ..I went.

They tested me and said I came back positive for type A influenza. Doctor gave me a script for 5 days of Tamiflu and said continue taking motrin / tylenol for fever & mucinex for the congestion. He said with the Tamiflu ...I should start feeling better in 2-3 days.

Which he was right... my fever broke that Wednesday night and by Friday ...I was feeling quite a bit better.... especially with the snotting, sneezing & coughing I had been doing.

But honestly ... one side effect of this flu was fatigue & lack of energy. That part lasted me a few more days.... which heck the simplest task would absolutely wear me out.

The latter kicked my but as bad as the congestion.... so even when start feeling better it will still give you a reminder for a few more days.

Hope you get feeling better.

Edit to add.... I had also took a flu shot.
Which Ive took one every year for the last 15-20 years... as my wife is a RN at our health department. This was only the second time I got the flu since I've been taking the flu shot all these years. But my understanding is they were not effective on this strain. However my doctor said though since I had taken the shot...I probably have some immunities built up to where I may get over it a little quicker or possibly lessen effects.

I started feeling bad & getting a lot of congestion the day before Christmas Eve.... thinking I was taking a terrible head cold.

I made it through all our Christmas Eve & Christmas Day family obligations & dinners.....but I was just plum wore out. Then that night I started running fever , chills & body aches. Next morning my wife said you might want to see a doctor as she didn't think this was just a cold. So...that Tuesday ..I went.

A friend of mine that are older in age went about two weeks ago to get their flu shot 36 hours later came down with the worst flu they said they'd had in decades I guess the live bacteria in the shot kicked things in but they will never get another one again

I honestly was worried that all the family I was around Christmas eve & Christmas day would take it. But which a few weeks have went by since and not a single person I was with has had the flu... not even my wife.

Which the only way I figure they didn't....was I didn't start running a temp till Christmas night late... and we were all done with everybody during the day. I was snotty and full of congestion but apparently I wasn't contagious at that time. Which my worst days of feeling terrible was Tuesday & Wednesday after Christmas. Up until the fever & chills set in..I sincerely thought I just had a really bad head cold coming on.

Other than that....I don't have a clue why others didn't come down with it.

I honestly was worried that all the family I was around Christmas eve & Christmas day would take it. But which a few weeks have went by since and not a single person I was with has had the flu... not even my wife.

Which the only way I figure they didn't....was I didn't start running a temp till Christmas night late... and we were all done with everybody during the day. I was snotty and full of congestion but apparently I wasn't contagious at that time. Which my worst days of feeling terrible was Tuesday & Wednesday after Christmas. Up until the fever & chills set in..I sincerely thought I just had a really bad head cold coming on.

Other than that....I don't have a clue why others didn't come down with it.

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You got lucky!!! My nephews wife almost always has either a very bad cold or the flu when they come up here for Christmas. She was so bad Christmas 2016 that I would not take Mom over there and I didn't go myself but nobody else says they caught anything.

Wife and I were both sick before Christmas. Started feeling bad while visiting her family in New York state. Drove 13 hours home with body aches, chills, fever, and a nasty cough. I was so miserable I didn't even care how long the drive was. Crashed for 2 solid days when we got home.

It’s impossible to get the flu from getting the shot. The shot doesn’t protect from every strain of flu though so you can still it. I get the shot sometimes but haven’t in a few years. I got the flu last year from the guy I work next too. Otherwise I almost never get it. Only a few times I can remember. I’m a germaphobe too. Don’t touch door handles or rails with my hand but try and use the back of my hand. Wash often too. May not stop everything but I’m almost never sick.

It’s impossible to get the flu from getting the shot. The shot doesn’t protect from every strain of flu though so you can still it. I get the shot sometimes but haven’t in a few years. I got the flu last year from the guy I work next too. Otherwise I almost never get it. Only a few times I can remember. I’m a germaphobe too. Don’t touch door handles or rails with my hand but try and use the back of my hand. Wash often too. May not stop everything but I’m almost never sick.

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Save your typing fingers. It doesn't matter what proof you can produce.

"Ah gots the floo shot, ah almost died. Never agin!!!"
Or... "When I was in the Army/Navy/Marines... "They" gave the guy in the front of the line a flu shot. He fell over dead right there. The rest of us didn't have to take a flu shot. I never had one since..."
Or the best "Its a guvmint plot to control the poplation..."